William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 24

• Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Important Macbeth, Brows

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 3, l. 22

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• There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Evil, Soul

  1598-9 King Harry. HenryV, act 4, sc.1, l.4-5.

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• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Night, Clown

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [20]

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• Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• The sweat of industry would dry and die,
  But for the end it works to.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweat, Dry, Ends

  William Shakespeare (1872). “Shakespeare's tragedy of Cymbeline, with notes critical and explanatory by J. Hunter”, p.81

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• By being seldom seen, I could not stir
  But like a comet I was wondered at.

  William Shakespeare

  Wonder, Fame, Comets

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.260, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Sunset

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

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• Dirty days hath September
  April June and November
  From January up to May
  The rain it raineth every day
  All the rest have thirty-one
  Without a blessed gleam of sun
  And if any of them had two-and-thirty
  They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty."
  
  
  
  "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Blessed, Rain

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• Greatness knows itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Greatness, Honor

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. 74

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• For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Drinking, Beer

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Opportunity, New Opportunity

  "The Plays of William Shakespeare".

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• Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.

  William Shakespeare

  Winning, Crowns, World

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.138

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• Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Charm, Harm, Provoking

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 1, l. 16

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• He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Brother, Ocean

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.14, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Angel, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Eye, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

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• Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Fall, Thrones

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Macbeth”, p.81, Palgrave Macmillan

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• At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Lying, Enemy

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakspere”, p.30

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• Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Simplicity, Environmental

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• Beware the ides of March.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Autumn, March

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 15

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• The prize of all too precious you.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Prize

  Sonnet 86

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• He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, Bees, Worthy

  William Shakespeare (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”

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• And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Mirrors, Shadow

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.655

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• Blood will have blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122

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• Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Looks, Poor

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.519

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